Asian Contents & Film Market

Asian Project Market Showcase Ⅱ

Sat, 20 September, 14:50-16:25 | Day 1
Event Room C

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Directors and producers of this year’s official selections present their projects at the Asian Project Market Showcase. The showcase features 30 Asian feature film projects that reflect political, social, and cultural diversity, with on-site registration available for additional business meetings following the event.

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Moderator

KIM Young (Curator, Busan International Film Festival Asian Contents & Film Market)

Producer Kim Young has worked across various sectors of the film industry, building a diverse and international career. She worked on film projects as a producer at Motion 101, a production company affiliated with Showbox, and later served as team head of the Diversity Film Division at Movie Collage, which later became Art House under CGV. There, she focused on programming independent and art house films. She then moved to Los Angeles, where she led theatrical promotion of Korean films as team head of the exhibition division at CJ E&M US, working with CGV Cinemas to expand the presence of Korean cinema in the U.S. market. More recently, she produced international co-production documentaries between Korea and France, including The Man Who Paints Water Drops (Kim Oan, Brigitte Bouillot, 2021) and Everything That Connects Us (Jung, 2024), demonstrating her commitment to global storytelling. Currently, she serves as a curator at the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), contributing to various project market support programs, including the Asian Project Market (APM).

(Pitching Order)
*Supported by ACF Script Development Fund

No.	Project Title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production Country/Region
16	Arrival of Water	JO Heeyoung	PARK Sejin	Korea/Japan
	Logline Amid the untranslated words left by his departed lover, Yuuki is confronted with his own unspoken words.
17	BODOI	SHIRAISHI Kazuya	KII Muneyuki	Japan
	Logline A young Vietnamese trainee in Japan becomes undocumented after false accusations. Facing crime, love, and survival, he’s forced to choose between morality and protecting those he cares for.
18	Churching of Women	Darin J. SALLAM	Deema AZAR Ayah JARDANEH	Jordan
	Logline 1938, the Levant. After being wrongfully imprisoned in a mental asylum, an author is faced with a decision to surrender to insanity or fight for her sanity.
19	The Funeral March	FUJITA Naoya	FUJITA Kanako ZOU Aiken ZOU Lin SHIINA Yasushi	Japan/China
	Logline A reclusive woman in snowy Hokkaido steals her mother’s body to fulfill a promise—sparking an absurd, emotional road trip, as her estranged family pursues her across the frozen countryside.
20	Gilddong	PARK Riwoong	AHN Byungrae	Korea/China
	Logline Drawn from truth, colored by lies—a story so outrageous that it shook their kingdom to its core.
21	Heaven Help Us!*	Eve BASWEL	John TORRES Jules KATANYAG Danzen Santos KATANYAG	Philippines
	Logline Set against the 1981 Manila Film Center collapse, this reimagined drama follows workers whose stories intersect as they race to meet an impossible deadline—unaware that in 12 hours tragedy will.
22	Lanka (The Fire)	Saurav RAI	Sudeepta SADHUKHAN Ankita PURKAYASTHA Viraj SELOT	India
	Logline 12-year-old Simon accidentally injures Shiv during their routine karate session. The incident escalates into a David-and-Goliath-like conflict between their families, who stand on opposite sides of the socio-economic spectrum.
23	New Life*	LI Yingtong	Annie SONG	China
	Logline After her husband's death, Lin and her daughter confront guilt, superstition, and buried emotions; each embarking on a quiet journey toward reconciliation and the hope of new balance.
24	No Country for Old Men	AN Bon	CHEN Pao-ying	Taiwan
	Logline A-Jing, an elderly criminal, secretly living in Xian’s government-allocated rental house, plots to steal Xian’s life; by going to her church, claiming her annuities, and snatching her lover, Lin, for herself.
25	Paradis Karaoke	BYUN Sungbin	BONG Suji	Korea
	Logline Two elderly men, who met at twenty, in 1980, have loved only each other ever since—through parting, reunion, and years of longing.
26	Sama	Brishkay AHMED	Bonnie DO Brishkay AHMED	Canada/Afghanistan
	Logline When Afghan immigrant Sama’s husband is injured in a brothel shooting, she’s left with an isolated week to confront his infidelity—and her role as a wife in her new country.
27	Silence of the Looms	Mirza Shabnam FERDOUSI	Rajib MOHAJAN	Bangladesh
	Logline In colonial Bengal, a young muslin weaver defies the British Empire to protect his people’s craft, leading to love, betrayal, and a final act of sacrifice that echoes through centuries.
28	Silent Cry	Jero YUN	Jero YUN KIM Hyeonji	Korea
	Logline A story of two wounded teenagers—a girl with hearing loss, and a former boxing prodigy—who help each other heal, and rediscover the rhythms of music and life.
29	Stuck Like Babies	Dastan ZHAPAR RYSKELDI	Veronica RHYME Fernanda RENNO Aktan RYSKELDIEV	Kyrgyzstan
	Logline Two Central Asian nations postpone war over a baby found at the border, while a Kyrgyz commander and Tajik doctor quietly bond as they care for the child caught in between.
30	Wake Me up When the Mourning Ends	LAU Kok Rui	Soi CHEANG Stefano CENTINI WONG Kew Soon	Malaysia/Hong Kong, China/Italy/Taiwan
	Logline A grieving single mother returns for her fiancé’s final rites, hoping to reclaim her son—only to confront a family still mourning, and a mother’s sorrow that mirrors her own.